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Happily married crafter, artist, photographer, birder, easily distracted by bugs in East Tennessee. https://wildmaven.wixsite.com/wildmaven Merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/marianmurdoch/explore

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 6h

Fond memories

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 8h

Inktober day 15 prompt is Ragged. Presenting the Ragged Sea Hare!

#inktober #art #invertebrate

Ink drawing of a sea slug that has numerous raggedy projections all over its body and blue eyespots

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 1d

I loooove his voice!

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 1d

Underside of mystery bird 🪶

Orangey colored underside of a bird

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 1d

Silent visitor high in a tree. This was the best I could get, unfortunately. Any ideas? East Tennessee. 🪶

Unknown bird. I can’t see many details to describe.

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 1d

I can understand his view on this. A magazine once sent a photographer to shoot me for a story and all the photos were taken from a low angle, not an angle pleasing for plus sized and older subjects. I disliked most of the photos.

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 1d

HAHAHAHA 😂😂😂

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 1d

We recently put a shed in our backyard on raised footings. A Carolina wren has claimed it as its own, spending time underneath and coming out to sing on the steps in the morning. 🪶

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober day 14 prompt is Trunk. How about the little elephant shrew! #inktober #art 🦊

Ink drawing of a small rodent with a trunk-like nose

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 1d

I love his channel

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Inktober day 13 prompt is Drink. Scientists have recently discovered that koalas lick water drops from leaves and branches. #inktober #art

Ink drawing of a koala licking a drop of water from a eucalyptus leaf

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve spent so much time lately sitting on my back deck staring at the forest because of that feeling

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 2d

Flower and bones doodle. That’s the outline of my own hand 😂 #art Live long and prosper.

Ink drawing of a skeleton hand with a striped design over the top of daisy style flowers.

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 3d

Carolina wren just scratched through the fallen leaves just 10 feet from where I sat. It vocalized the entire time and now my day is complete. ❤️ 🪶 This is why I don’t rake leaves.

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 3d

Inktober day 12 prompt is Shredded.

#inktober #art 🦊

A bear stretches up on hind legs as it uses its powerful claws to shred the bark off of a tree

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 4d

Inktober day 11 prompt is Sting. This is a tarantula hawk wasp, which gives probably the most painful sting in the world. #inktober #inktober2025 #art 🐞

A large wasp stings the bald head of a big-eyed alien

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 5d

But have you read The Princess and the Penis, a retelling of The Princess and the Pea? I got it as a lark but found it very funny. Amazon.

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 5d

Inktober day 9 (Heavy) and 10 (Sweep). Day 9 is the very heavy elephant seal and day 10 shows the sweeping tail motion a hippo uses when it poops. 😂 #inktober 🦊 #art

Two ink drawings. One of an elephant seal emerging onto the shore with a wave breaking over its back, and the other depicting the rather gross way a hippo sweeps its tail side to side while pooping to fling the waste all over the place.

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 5d

THANK YOU!!

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 5d

And it’s gone so quickly

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 5d

Need that forest one!

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks! ❤️

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 7d

Inktober day 8’s prompt is Reckless. #art #inktober

A horned goat perched precariously on a pile of junk including a birdcage, teacup, book, old tire, old style television, and a baseball bat. A butterfly also sits on the bat and a lock and chain hang from the bat. Pen and ink drawing.

Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 8d

Inktober day 7 Prompt: Starfish. This is the crown of thorns starfish. #art #inktober

Drawing of a starfish with many many legs, all covered by sharp barbs. It rests on coral and kelp can be seen in the background.